Carson's Cartooning Curriculum

January 11, 2007 10:28 PM

Comic Strip Artist's Kit Carson Van Osten's tips for cartoonists and animators, scanned huge for easy printout.
posted by klangklangston (13 comments total)

Thanks for posting this. quite a find
posted by holdkris99 at 12:18 AM on January 12, 2007

Thanks, kangklangston. You might also like these breakdowns of Bill Peet drawings.
posted by maryh at 1:06 AM on January 12, 2007

For handy reference I made it into a PDF.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:50 AM on January 12, 2007

Fantastic, klangklangston, thanks.

Very cool, Brandon Blatcher.
posted by bru at 5:51 AM on January 12, 2007

Thanks! A bunch of stuff I kind of knew but didn't know I knew or didn't have terms for. "Tangents" especially - the unwelcome connection of an outline in the background with an unrelated outline in the foreground. These bedeviled me for years until I learned to watch out for them.
posted by soyjoy at 5:56 AM on January 12, 2007

illiminating.
posted by carsonb at 6:34 AM on January 12, 2007

Faboo! As I struggle haplessly into my own drawing ventures, documentation of hard-won common sense is invaluable stuff.
posted by cortex at 6:46 AM on January 12, 2007

Thanks for the link and the pdf. Always helpful.
posted by rougy at 8:08 AM on January 12, 2007

This is really cool, thanks KK.
posted by doctor_negative at 9:19 AM on January 12, 2007

Interesting! Thank you.
posted by notmydesk at 9:28 AM on January 12, 2007

Yay!
posted by holyrood at 12:15 PM on January 12, 2007

Carson Van Osten also played bass in Todd Rundgren's old group The Nazz. Talented guy!
posted by bink at 12:18 PM on January 12, 2007

Bink— I knew Osten played, but I had no idea it was with the Nazz! Sweet!
posted by klangklangston at 3:06 PM on January 13, 2007